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1653
thumb|Golden bees from the tomb of Childeric I, excavated in 1653
thumb|Farmhouse in Destelbergen with gable dated 1653
Events in the year 1653 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents
Habsburg Netherlands
Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
Governor General – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
Events
24 January – Prohibition on recruitment for foreign armies in LiègeCommission royale pour la publication des anciennes lois et ordonnances de la Belgique, Liste chronologique des édits et ordonnances de la principauté de Liége de 1507 à 1684 (Brussels, 1860)188
February – Prince of Condé invades the neutral Prince-Bishopric of Liège in support of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, sacking Couvin and CineyAlain de Gueldre (ed.), Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987), p. 397.
27 May – Discovery of the tomb of Childeric I near Tournai
31 May – Pope Innocent X's bull Cum occasione published in the Spanish Netherlands
4 July – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria prohibits soldiers from lodging with family instead of in their assigned quartersRené Vermeir, ed., Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 3 (Brussels, 2023)229
7 July – Council of Guelders prohibits gypsies and vagrants from congregating around the pilgrimage site KevelaerVermeir3 230-231
11 August – Brussels Privy Council prohibits the exportation of grain to territory not under the control of friendly or neutral statesVermeir3 233-237
23 August – Brussels Privy Council permits the limited importation of English textiles through the ports of the County of Flanders for a period of four yearsVermeir3 237-243
1 October – Orders in Liège to raise 500 cavalry and 1,000 infantry to guarantee the territory's neutralityLiege 189
17 November – Departure times for the boat service between Liège and Huy publishedLiege 190
17 December – Unlicensed exportation of arms, gunpowder, or other munitions of war from the city of Liège prohibitedLiege 190
23 December – Charles de Hovyne replaces Pieter Roose as president of the Brussels Privy Council
Art and architecture
thumb|Pieter Neefs the Younger, Interior of Antwerp Cathedral (1653), now in Temple Newsam
Paintings
Jacob Jordaens, The Banquet of Cleopatra
Pieter Neefs the Younger, Interior of Antwerp Cathedral
David Teniers the Younger, Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels
Buildings
Farmhouse in Destelbergen, now listed built heritagehttps://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/35934 Hoeve, bouwkundig element, ID 35934 Flanders Heritage Agency
Tower of the Church of Our Lady, Alsemberg burns downhttps://historiek.net/de-onze-lieve-vrouwekerk-in-alsemberg/19514/ De Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Alsemberg Rudi Schrever 18 December 2022 Historiek
Publications
Jean Jacques Chifflet, Pulvis febrifugus orbis AmericaniPulvis febrifugus at Munich Digitization Center
Claude de Grieck, Liefde zonder zien verwekt, bly-spel (Brussels, Claudius de Grieck)Liefde zonder zien verwekt on Google Books
Albertus Ignatius d'Hanins, Het bevel van Cupido (Brussels, Guillaume Scheybels)Het bevel van Cupido at Digital Library for Dutch Literature
Libertus Fromondus, Brevis commentarius in Canticum canticorum (Leuven, Hieronymus Nempaeus)https://ustc.ac.uk/editions/1533341 USTC Record Universal Short Title Catalogue
Jesuit College, Ghent, Tragedie Jephte, rechter des Volckx Israel (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet)
Pierre Marchant, Expositio mystico-litteralis SSmi. Incruenti sacrificii missae (Ghent, Alexander Sersanders)
(Nuns of Oosteeklo Abbey), Institution de la Confrérie du méliflue docteur S. Bernard, signale favori de la Vierge-Mère, en l'abbaye d'Oost-Eecloo l'an M.DC.LIII (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet)Institution de la Confrérie on Google Books
Livinus Vaentkens, Sancti Bernardi doctoris melliflui vitae medulla quinquaginta quatuor iconibus representata (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens and Engelbert Gymnicus)Sancti Bernardi doctoris melliflui vitae on Google Books
Michael van Langren, Description particuliere du grand changement que la sable ou banc de Mardyck a fait depuis l'an 1624 jusques au temps present 1653 (Brussels, François Schovardts)Description particuliere on Google Books
Periodicals
Relations veritables, edited by Pierre Hugonet (Brussels, printed by Guillaume Scheybels to be sold by Guillaume Hacquebaud)https://ustc.ac.uk/editions/N57 Universal Short Title Catalogue Relations veritableshttps://dictionnaire-journaux.gazettes18e.fr/journal/1188-relations-veritables Les Relations veritables Dictionnaire des journaux (1600-1789)
Births
28 January (baptism) – Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers, abbot (died 1709)
26 April – Jan Vaerman, mathematician (died 1731)
Date uncertain
Artus Quellinus III, sculotor (died 1686)
Deaths
1 February – Henricus Calenus (born 1583), clergyman
12 June – Ernestine of Arenberg (born 1589), noblewoman
4 September – Sidronius Hosschius (born 1596), Jesuit poet
16 October – Jan Wildens (born 1586), painter
19 October – Michel Routart (born c.1580), government official
28 October – Libert Froidmont (born 1587), theologian and scientist
Date uncertain
Jan Dirven (born 1625), painter
Antoon Faydherbe (active from 1598), sculptor
Gillis Peeters the Elder (born 1612), painter
Jan van Belcamp (born 1610), painter
References
1653 in
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